Kate McKinnon (Kathryn McKinnon Berthold) Quotes
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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I love my sleep.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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I'm lucky because I have the ability to look at the brighter side of life.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
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Yes, a private investigator like my Wilbraham Rice. The public have taken very strongly to Wilbraham Rice. He bites his nails and eats a lot of bananas. I don’t know why I made him bite his nails to start with - it’s really rather disgusting - but there it is. He started by biting his nails, and now he has to do it in every single book. So monotonous.
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My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.
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You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.
